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While at a London hospital recuperating from a fall, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of King Richard. A student of human faces, Grant cannot believe that the man in the picture would kill his own nephews. With an American researcher's help, Grant delves into his country's history to discover just what kind of man Richard Plantagenet was and who really killed the little princes. --This text refers to the Audible Audio Edition edition. Review The New York Times One of the best mysteries of all time. Boston Sunday Globe The unalloyed pleasure of watching a really cultivated mind in action! Buy and cherish! --This text refers to the Audible Audio Edition edition. See all Editorial Reviews NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . Ignite your imagination with these editor's picks from Kindle books.

See more Product Details Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 7, 2015) Language: English Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces By PlantBirdWoman on July 21, 2015 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase I first read The Daughter of Time long ago in my callow youth. I can't recall much about that first reading experience. I don't think it made much of an impression on me. I was not well-versed in English history and knew little of the Plantagenets, the Wars of the Roses, or the Tudors except what I had gleaned from Shakespeare, so there was very little background for my understanding of what Josephine Tey was doing with this novel. Since that long ago time, I have read dozens of books about that period of history, especially during the past couple of years when it has been something of an obsession of mine. The result is that I'm now much better equipped to follow Tey's plot and the reasoning of her protagonist Inspector Alan Grant. When I ran across a reference to her book recently, I was intrigued and decided it was time to read it again.

I'm very glad that I did. The plot of the book is that Inspector Alan Grant has been seriously injured in a fall while chasing a miscreant and is now bedridden in the hospital with a broken leg and injuries to his spine. He must lie flat on his back. He is extremely bored. In order to divert him, his friends have been bringing him piles of books, but he can't get interested in them. One of his friends, an actress, knowing of his fascination with faces, brings him pictures of several historical figures who have mysteries attached to them. Most of the pictures do not pique his interest, but finally one of them does capture his imagination. It is a copy of the famous portrait of Richard III. Grant knows little about Richard III except what he remembers from Shakespeare which is, basically, that he killed his two nephews, the "Princes in the Tower," and that he died on Bosworth Field calling for a horse, but, as a student of faces and one whose career depends on being able to read faces, he begins to doubt, while studying the portrait of Richard, that this man was a murderer.

He determines to conduct an investigation, four hundred years after the fact, to determine the accuracy of the charges against the man. His actress friend is delighted to have found something that will occupy Grant's mind and distract him from his predicament. What he needs is someone to do research for him and she happens to know just the person, a young American friend of hers who has an interest in history. Soon he is introduced to Brent Carradine and the two form an alliance and a working partnership in search of the truth. The two pore over history books and historical accounts of events of the late 15th century, but they soon discover that the most famous accounts of the period - that of Sir Thomas More, for example - were not contemporaneous but were actually written later, during the Tudor period. Since the Tudors were mortal enemies of Richard, can their accounts really be trusted? Grant, the consummate detective, doesn't think so. At length, the two investigators find that none of the reports that were actually written during the time of Richard's life refer to the death of the two princes and that there is evidence that the mother of the two remained in a friendly relationship with Richard and that her daughters continued to attend events at his court.

None of that seems to be the action of a mother or a family who considered Richard to be the murderer of their sons and brothers. Grant and Carradine come to the conclusion that the princes were, in fact, still alive in the Tower throughout Richard's reign. So, what happened to them? Were they killed, and, if so, who killed them? Grant decides to follow the clues, as he would in any murder investigation, to try to uncover the culprit. The first question he asks is, who stood to gain from the princes' death? It wouldn't have been Richard, since after his brother Edward IV's death, Parliament had declared his children with Elizabeth Woodville as illegitimate because there had been an earlier, undissolved marriage with another woman. But there were other children, those of his brother George, who stood ahead of Richard in line to become king, and yet those children continued to live and thrive. After Richard's death, Henry VII, the first of the Tudors, rescinded all of that and made the Woodville children legitimate again because he wished to marry the oldest of them, the young Elizabeth.

In short order, he also sent the children's mother (his mother-in-law) to a convent to live out her days. He also began to systematically rid the government and the aristocracy of the various Woodville relatives who had permeated it during the Yorkist reigns. No mention is made of the princes. Grant forms the theory that it was Henry who caused the princes to be killed since, by the order of succession, the older one would have been legitimately seen as king and would have provided a rallying point for his enemies. He sent the princes' mother to a convent so that she would be out of the way and have no means of protesting. He then purged other members of the extensive family. Tey, through Grant, lays out a very plausible case for her theory. She was not the only one who believed Richard innocent. Throughout the more than 450 years since Richard lived and died, there have been loyal groups in Britain who have continued to believe that he had been falsely maligned and to work to rehabilitate his reputation. Tey's book, which was published in 1951, influenced that movement and convinced many to join it. Such has been the far-reaching influence of this unique murder mystery.

This was a work of fiction, of course, and yet it offered a fascinating journey through English history. It also gives us a study of a high-minded obsession, as well, as Grant becomes thoroughly convinced of the falsity of the charge against the accused and he is determined to prove him innocent and bring the guilty to justice. It is, after all, what he does. Some have noted the obvious relationship between this story and Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Since the movie came a few years after the publication of the popular book, it is possible that Hitchcock was influenced by it. Certainly, the obsession of a wheelchair-bound James Stewart with the activities of his neighbors that he is able to view from his window is comparable to the obsession of the bedridden Grant with the idea of balancing the scales of history. Most likely we will never know with one hundred percent certainty what happened in the Tower of London long ago, but Josephine Tey through Alan Grant at least makes a strong argument for reasonable doubt about the guilt of Richard III and she makes us hungry to read more about that period. Yes, my obsession continues.

Sixty-four years have passed since the publication of this book, which has been voted number one among the top 100 British murder mysteries, and archaeology has added to Richard's story. A few years ago, his remains were found near Bosworth Field where he had been hastily buried after the battle. After excavation and confirmation of his identity, those remains were reburied with full honors and great ceremony at Leicester Cathedral, with the service conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and royalty in attendance. Truth may be the daughter of time, but irony is its son. By D. Furman on July 31, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase I wanted to love this book, given the glowing reviews and rewards, but I just couldn't. I previously knew nothing about Richard III and the scandal regarding his nephews. I did learn a lot from this book, but it felt too much like a text book. I am in a Mystery Book Club and this was our July choice. As such, I felt obligated to read it all, but it was tough going. And, as this book was set over 400 years ago, all the discussions and what-ifs surrounding this mystery go nowhere.

There is no resolution to the mystery. I gave the book 3 stars because of my new-found knowledge on the subject. However, it is not a book I would recommend. By Carol Buchanan on August 3, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase Recently, a popular mystery writer of today called this the "greatest mystery novel of all time." Ms. Tey died in 1952 at the age of 56, so right away,. we know this is a much different mystery than we're used to reading these days. By today's standards, it starts slowly, The main character, Recuperating from an injury received during a chase after a thug, Inspector Alan Grant is flat on his back throughout the novel. Two or three other characters drop in from time to time to bring him information that he needs to solve the crime. Which, by the way, occurred in the late 15th century. In short, the book has some of the characteristics that fiction-writing advisors tell aspiring authors never to do. The inciting incident is the gift of a picture of a long dead king, Richard the Third, for example. So it's not a book for everyone, OK?

Alan Grant becomes intrigued with the portrait, and decides to find out if Richard really did murder his two young nephews. For hundreds of years history has said he did it. (Or had it done.) But are the historians right? I've loved this novel most of my reading life. Try it. If you're an aspiring writer, you'll learn something. If you like being challenged, you'll learn something about the way history becomes fact. And if you're a general reader of mysteries, this one is a gem. By aislynn 2 on March 13, 2015 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase This particular book is one of my two all-time favorites. After watching today's politics and the lying therein, how can anyone believe the lying and cover ups haven't been worse in the past? It always made more sense to me that, by leaving the little princes alive, Henry had more to lose than Richard ever did. There are those who cling to the old saw, but one can inevitably trace their sources back to the Tudors. Always check the sources. Maybe there are errors in this book, but for my money, it makes sense.

Everything goes back to Edward's first marriage, which happened and is a matter of public record now. Read this book if you love history. Read this book if you understand our history is much more than our schools ever taught us. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey | Waterstones Synopsis Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III, the hunchback king, whose remains were recently discovered. The Daughter of Time investigates his role in the death of his nephews, the princes in the Tower, and his own death on the battlefield. Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time is an investigation into the real facts behind the last Plantagenet king's reign, and an attempt to right what many believe to be the terrible injustice done to him by the Tudor dynasty. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history.

Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower. Publisher: Cornerstone Josephine Tey Josephine Tey Josephine Tey Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the health and vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate. Then there was a nasty accident - and suddenly Miss Pym was forced to apply her agile intellect to the unpleasant fact that among all those impressively healthy bodies someone had a very sick mind... Josephine Tey On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure - but Grant is not so sure.

Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased had apparently scrawled on a newspaper, he follows a trail to the remote Outer Hebrides. And though it is the end of his holiday, it is also the beginning of an intriguing investigation into the bizarre circumstances shrouding Charles Martin's death... Josephine Tey It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go to any lengths for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented and ultra-fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what was this gifted creature doing in such an English village backwater as Salcott St Mary? And why - and how - did he disappear? If a crime had been committed, was it murder ... fraud ... or simply some macabre practical joke? Josephine Tey Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...

Josephine Tey Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto... Josephine Tey A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the imposter's plan and his very life... Josephine Tey Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III, the hunchback king, whose skeleton was discovered in a council carpark, and who was buried in March 2015 in state in Leicester Cathedral. The Daughter of Time investigates his role in the death of his nephews, the princes in the Tower, and his own death at the Battle of Bosworth.

Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time is an investigation into the real facts behind the last Plantagenet king's reign, and an attempt to right what many believe to be the terrible injustice done to him by the Tudor dynasty. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law.

Quiet and ordinary, they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise. Unremarkable that is, until the police turn up with a demure young woman on their doorstep. Not only does Betty Kane accuse them of kidnap and abuse, she can back up her claim with a detailed description of the attic room in which she was kept, right down to the crack in its round window. But there's something about Betty Kane's story that doesn't quite add up. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is stumped. And it takes Robert Blair, local solicitor turned amateur detective, to solve the mystery that lies at the heart of The Franchise Affair... Books That Changed My Life: The Daughter of Time Books That Changed My Life: The Daughter of Time Friday Nov 01, 2013 · 5:00 AM PDT 2013/11/01 · 05:00 × Tag History 85 It was an old paperback that was in the bookcase in the den of my family's house alongside other paperbacks, mostly Agatha Christies and Erle Stanley Gardners.

It was rainy, it was summer and I was bored and needed something to read. I was thirteen or thereabouts. An hour later, I was buried deep into one of the greatest historical conundrums of all time - Who murdered the Princes in The Tower during the bloody transition from the last of the Plantagenets to the Tudors for the throne of England? The Daughter of Time was originally published in 1951 and has become one of the most well-known mystery books ever written. It is very sad that Josephine Tey (real name Elizabeth Macintosh) died the next year and was not able to see how far reaching and lasting was the impact of her novel. I didn't put it down from the time of picking it up until the last word of the last sentence on the last page and then I put it aside with a sigh. Poor Richard! How crummy is it to be vilified as one of the most evil men in history when there is a very good possibility that you yourself were the victim of murderers and slanderers? The framing device that Tey uses for her historical mystery is simply brilliant. Briefly, a bored British police inspector, Alan Grant is laid up in the hospital with nothing to do.

His good friend Marta, an actress, brings him a collection of portrait prints from the National Gallery in London which are comprised of figures who are the subjects of historical mysteries which she believes could use further investigation. She thinks this would be a splendid project to keep him occupied during his convalescence. He is uninterested until he comes to the last picture which he guesses incorrectly to be a judge or a man of good temperament. When he turns the picture over to find out who it is, to his surprise it is Richard the III, famed Shakespearean villain and the murderer of the two lost Princes in the Tower. Because he prides himself on his innate ability to determine character from visage, Inspector Grant then embarks on a quest to see whether his instinct and insight were correct or incorrect when it comes to Richard. This is the picture that sets him off on his fact-finding journey. All of his investigation takes place within the confines of his hospital room and involves the perusal of history books and historical records. This reading is then supplemented with a Socratic discussion with a young researcher from the British Museum who assists him in the search for the truth regarding the murder of The Princes in The Tower The Daughter of Time is an important book.

The reason it is an important book is contained in the title, one of the best titles ever for revealing the essence of an entire book. When I first pulled it down from the shelf, I thought that it would be a novel about a woman, the 'Daughter' of the title. Wrong. The book opens with the preface "Truth is the daughter of time" and an attribution to "Old proverb". If you choose to investigate further, you will find a more complete thought in a quote from Francis Bacon who adds a qualifying phrase, "Truth is the daughter of time, not authority." The Bacon quote turns out to be the true theme of the book. And while The Daughter of Time is on every list that exists of Best Mysterys Ever Written, its enduring fame is not as strictly a mystery novel. The book is assigned reading in history classes, but not for what it teaches about the history of the Princes in the Tower. The reason it is assigned reading in history is because of what it teaches about historical methodology and the difficulty of interpreting source material without understanding the circumstances under which it was originally written. Is the narrator objective or self-serving? Are they writing or testifying to that which they have themselves witnessed or that about which they were told?

By whom? How long past? It teaches how elusive 'truth' is and how subject it is to being twisted to suit the needs and the motivations of the chroniclers. "History is written by the victor" is an old saw but one that contains an essential truth. History is malleable, and subject to the shifting needs of those who present it. Are we not ourselves, in even our modern day, still the gullible audience for those who present fiction as fact and fact as fiction? I won't spoil the book for you if you have never read it - suffice it to say that the laid-up Inspector Grant discovers many many reasons to suspect that Richard III is the victim of one of the worst frame-up jobs in history and that he may not be the villain we all "know" him to be. This topic is by no means exhausted and is still the subject of controversy and competing theories to this day. The Richard III Society , founded in 1924 remains active and dedicated to the reclamation of the reputation of Richard III.

From their Mission Statement: The Richard III Society may, at first glance, appear to be an extraordinary phenomenon - a society dedicated to reclaiming the reputation of a king of England who died over 500 years ago and who reigned for little more than two years. Richard's infamy over the centuries has been due to the continuing popularity, and the belief in, the picture painted of Richard III by William Shakespeare in his play of that name. The validity of this representation of Richard has been queried over the centuries and has now been taken up by the Society. The Society is perhaps best summed up by its Patron, the present Richard, Duke of Gloucester: "… the purpose—and indeed the strength—of the Richard III Society derives from the belief that the truth is more powerful than lies; a faith that even after all these centuries the truth is important. It is proof of our sense of civilised values that something as esoteric and as fragile as reputation is worth campaigning for." I have to wonder if the Richard III Society ever happened upon a long lost diary of Richards with the following entry: No more worries. Tyrrell demanded a fortune, but I was happy to pay it.

Elizabeth Woodvillle will not be happy, but she'll get a settlement that should keep her quiet hey nonny nonny ho forsooth, what? if it should ever see the light of day. See how skeptical I've become? For other takes on Richard III there is Alison Weir's The Princes in The Tower (1992) which I have not read but plan to. How a Detective Novel Led to the Rediscovery of Richard III - The New Yorker March 24, 2015 CreditCourtesy Hulton Archive / Getty On Thursday, March 26th, nearly five hundred and thirty years after his death, King Richard III will be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral. The discovery of the monarch’s remains after half a millennium was an improbable archeological feat, sparked in part by a writer named Philippa Langley, who was researching a screenplay about him. Langley, by her own account, was walking through an empty parking lot, when she felt a chill and decided that she was standing on Richard’s grave .

She then spent years persuading a University of Leicester team to do the dig and a group of Ricardians—people convinced that Richard’s reputation has been unfairly maligned for centuries—to fund it. In 2012, archaeologists excavated a skeleton with spinal curvature and battle wounds near that spot in the parking lot. They concluded, eventually, that it was indeed Richard III. But the quest to discover Richard’s skeleton, and perhaps redeem his reputation, has earlier and equally unlikely roots. Though writers and historians have been arguing since the seventeenth century that Richard III wasn’t the villain whom Shakespeare described, it was a 1951 mystery novel that sparked mass interest in Richard’s redemption. The writer went by the name Josephine Tey, and the novel was called “The Daughter of Time.” Tey, whose real name was Elizabeth MacKintosh, is herself something of a mystery. A teacher from Inverness, Scotland, she began publishing novels in 1929 under the name Gordon Daviot, the first of her pseudonyms.

Daviot also wrote historical plays—her “Richard of Bordeaux” starred John Gielgud as Richard II—and she seems to have researched Richard III’s life first for a play called “Dickon,” sometime in the nineteen-forties. The subject offered her rich material: the debate about whether Richard had murdered his brother’s two sons, the famous Princes in the Tower (the Tower of London, that is, where the boys were living when they were last seen) had been ongoing for centuries. Tudor-era historians and writers insisted that Richard—named the boys’ regent after the death of their father, King Edward IV—had killed the princes in order to assume the throne. As new documents came to light, writers began to take Richard’s side, arguing that evidence against him was slim and that his motive for murder was unclear. “Dickon” was Tey’s first foray into the debate. As an attempt to sway the public, though, the play was a failure: it was neither performed nor published during Tey’s lifetime. But even if it had been produced “Dickon” probably would not have drawn audiences to the Ricardian cause—it’s too confusing.

Jennifer Morag Henderson, whose biography of Tey will be published this November, says, “If you didn’t know the controversy about the Princes in the Tower, it would be quite difficult to understand.” But, with “The Daughter of Time,” Tey found an approach to the story that would make more sense to the uninitiated: she gave the mystery of Richard to a detective. The Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant first appeared in her 1929 novel, “The Man in the Queue,” and is the protagonist of five of Tey’s books. When “The Daughter of Time,” the fourth of these, begins, Grant is out of work with a broken leg—the result of “the absolute in humiliation,” a fall through a trap door during a chase. His active mind has exhausted the entertainment value of his hospital room by mapping the cracks on the ceiling and profiling his nurses, whom he dubs the Midget and the Amazon. He has no patience for the formulaic novels that people have sent him. To quiet his “prickles of boredom,” an actress friend brings him a collection of portraits attached to historical controversies: Grant, after years in the police force, has a fascination with faces.

His eye catches on a portrait of Richard III, who has the reputation of a monster but the face, Grant thinks, of a judge. “Someone used to great responsibility, and responsible in his authority. Someone too conscientious. A worrier; perhaps a perfectionist.” For Grant, the question of whether a man with such a responsible face could be a murderer is irresistible. Without any training as a historian, he begins his investigation with a child’s history book borrowed from a nurse. He takes in the usual story of Richard III as nephew-killing villain. He then advances to denser secondary sources about Richard, his family, and the Princes in the Tower, learning about the secret marriage agreement the princes’ father had made, which, when discovered after the father’s death, rendered the sons illegitimate. (Richard, next in line for the throne after the princes, became king by an act of Parliament.) Finally, Grant works with a young researcher named Brent Carradine to read chronicles from Richard’s time and the Tudor era. He judges the tone of these chronicles, and the attitudes of the chroniclers, in a way—and to a degree—that a historian might not.

“An aroma of back-stair gossip and servants’ spying came off the page,” Grant thinks while reading a history written by Sir Thomas More. “So that one’s sympathy tilted before one was aware of it.” The investigation doubles as a research tutorial. Grant’s reading list, Henderson told me, probably mirrored Tey’s own research for the book, which she would have done at the British Library on trips from her home in Inverness. Tey’s sympathies were clearly with Richard: Grant cannot build a case for Richard’s guilt in the matter of the princes, and he has little patience for historians who have tried to do so. “They have no talent for the likeliness of any situation,” Grant tells his friend Marta Hallard, the actress who brought him Richard III’s portrait. “They see history like a peepshow, with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.” By the end of the novel, Grant and Carradine are convinced that it was Henry VII, Richard’s successor, who was responsible for the deaths of the two boys. Carradine is dejected when, at the end of “The Daughter of Time,” he discovers that writers have been proclaiming Richard’s innocence for hundreds of years.

He fears that there will be no room on the shelves for his addition. “It won’t be a great discovery!” he shouts, and Tey notes that he “said it in capitals. A Great Discovery.” Even so, “The Daughter of Time” accomplished what previous literary efforts on Richard III’s behalf had not: it made research seem romantic, even noble, and made the quest to clear a man’s name seem possible for anyone with a library card or willing friends. Grant, after all, spends the entire book in bed. The novel was immediately popular when it first appeared, in 1951, and as its reach grew so did the pool of potential Ricardians. Tey’s dissection of received history prompted readers to question, as Grant does, everything they had been taught. This could feel like an awakening, as George Awdry describes in “The Richard III Society: The First Fifty Years,” an insider’s history of Ricardian efforts in the early-to-mid twentieth century. “It begins in the haphazard sort of way each of us can probably recognize as like his own experience,” Awdry writes.

“Vague dissatisfaction with the official version, curiosity, kindling of intense interest, realization that one is convinced.” (This was my own experience as a thirteen-year-old—after devouring “The Daughter of Time,” I followed Grant’s route into biographies and chronicles, and then into an ever-broadening swath of history.) At the end of the novel, Grant assures Carradine that he need not worry about a Great Discovery. “If you can’t be a pioneer what’s wrong with leading a crusade?” he says, adding, “There’s that old saying about constant water and its effect on stone.” Tey’s title, drawn from the saying that “truth is the daughter of time,” is a nod to this same idea—and her book did get the water flowing. It was the first in a wave of novels, plays, and biographies sympathetic to Richard that appeared in the fifties and sixties.

(One of these, Paul Murray Kendall’s 1955 biography of the King, was the book through which Philippa Langley first encountered Richard III.) “The Daughter of Time” became a radio broadcast in 1952, and a subsequent series of letters about Richard’s reputation, published in the Radio Times, introduced one “Daughter of Time” reader, Isolde Wigram, to a group of Ricardians who had formed their own organization in 1929. Wigram helped to reëstablish the group, now the Richard III Society, in its mission “to encourage and promote a more balanced view” of the King’s life and reputation. The group sponsored research that could reveal new details of Richard’s life. Half a century later, the members of the society were the Ricardians Langley called on to fund the Leicester excavation. After archaeologists recovered Richard’s skeleton and extracted evidence for DNA analysis, they sent the skull to an anthropologist and an artist who could use it to reconstruct Richard III’s face.

The result looked much like the surviving portraits of Richard III, the same ones that so compelled Grant in “The Daughter of Time.” He spends much of the novel staring at Richard’s portrait from his bed, asking every visitor’s opinion on it, ruminating on his research and what it tells him about that conscientious, worry-heavy face. I imagine he and Carradine doing the same with the 3-D reconstruction we have now, marvelling at the latest Great Discovery.

Sara Polsky is the features editor at Curbed and the author of the novel “This Is How I Find Her.” The Daughter of Time: Josephine Tey and Robert Barnard: Trade Paperback: 9780684803869: Powell's Books Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments Voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writersand#8217; Association in 1990, Josephine Tey recreates one of historyand#8217;s most famousand#8212;and viciousand#8212;crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history.

Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the worldand#8217;s most heinous villainsand#8212;a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brotherand#8217;s children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of Englandand#8217;s throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;andlt;Iandgt;The Daughter of Timeandlt;/Iandgt; is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writingand#8217;s most gifted masters. Review "The unalloyed pleasure of watching a really cultivated mind in action!

Buy and cherish!" Boston Sunday Globe Review "One of the best mysteries of all time." The New York Times Synopsis Josephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains -- a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower. The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing's most gifted masters.

Synopsis In one of Tey's bestselling mystery novels ever, Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to one of history's most heinous villains--a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown? Grant determines to find out once and for all what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower. About the Author andlt;Bandgt;Elizabeth MacKintoshandlt;/Bandgt; used two pen names during her writing career: Josephine Tey, who was also her Suffolk great-great-grandmother, and Gordon Daviot. She was born in 1897 in Inverness, Scotland, where she attended the Royal Academy. Miss MacKintosh later trained for three years at the Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, then began her teaching career as a physical training instructor. She gave up teaching to keep house for her father, who lived near Loch Ness, and pursue her writing.

Her first book was andlt;Iandgt;The Man in the Queueandlt;/Iandgt; (1929), published under the Gordon Daviot pseudonym, and it introduced the character of Inspector Grant, familiar now from the Tey novels. The author wrote chiefly under the signature of Gordon Daviot from 1929 to 1946, during which time her works included the play andlt;Iandgt;Richard of Bordeauxandlt;/Iandgt; (1933), which ran for a year with John Gielgud in the lead part. The first of the Josephine Tey mysteries, andlt;Iandgt;A Shilling for Candies,andlt;/Iandgt; was published in 1936 and was eventually followed by andlt;Iandgt;Miss Pym Disposesandlt;/Iandgt; in 1947.

Also included among the Tey mysteries are andlt;Iandgt;The Franchise Affairandlt;/Iandgt; (1949), andlt;Iandgt;Brat Farrarandlt;/Iandgt; (1949), andlt;Iandgt;To Love and Be Wiseandlt;/Iandgt; (1950), andlt;Iandgt;The Daughter of Timeandlt;/Iandgt; (1951), and andlt;Iandgt;The Singing Sandsandlt;/Iandgt; (1952). Elizabeth MacKintosh died in London on February 13, 1952. 4.7 3

Question: """The Daughter of Time"" a novel by Josephine Tey, features an investigation into which real life historical mystery?"
Answer: Princes In the Tower